Part 3 A Paradise in Space

Opening at the top of the ball allows the entry of space vehicles to land and refuel or unload supplies / cargoe or receive electricity.

Space travellers wearing contact magnetic boots disembark and leave the space hanger via one of several pressure sealed airlocks and move to their designated level via a magnetic lift. Once inside they remove their suits and join the many others that currently reside on the station.

The park located along the equator is the most pleasurable place to stay and has abundant wildlife tree's, animals and a lake. It receives all of the sunlight radiated through the solar array and refelected through each of the translucent carbon fibre polymer windows that run tangentially across the Balls surface. The properties of later Balls allowed light filtered to only 85% of earhlight to pass throughout the whole station equilivent to a bright but overcast day. The light is significantly brighter and must be filtered of harmful radiation first and yet when it hits and illuminates the opace semi translucent hul it conveys light throughout.

The views are stunning and the best place is right at the equator. Other stunning views include the low-g viewing locations adjacent the Space Port and the more quiet aquas filled regions of the lower polar region in which resides most of the marine life onboard aswell as the microwave projector.

After the shell is complete a level 1 atmos is applied to the outer shell. This minimizes the pressure exerted on the outer shell whilst retaining its structure and function to keep the vessel pressurised at that layer. A second layer built directly onto the buckyball frame work supports the remaining pressure of the interior once filled with earth level atmos.


The end result is a structure that can hold a variety of life sustaining ecosystems including a marine system, a forest system and ofcourse a hybrid hydropnics system for growing and recycling food aswell as an insectarium to provide a plentiful supply of nutrients to all onboard. Each ecosystem will inhabitat parts of the vessel with a lower gravity that suits the tolerances for the species it will sustain.

For example the Marine system will exist at the polar regions where there is close to zero G as fish and other marine species will quickly adapt to the absense of gravity.

Insects on the other hand do not far aswell in Micro-G and will however prosper in a fraction of earth gravity through selective breeding and adaption a process that takes less time then you'd think.

Other land dwelling mammals tree's and plants that have yet to be hybridized for low G environments will prosper in the forest system which will have earth's gravity whilst sustaining a variety of animal and plant life it will also provide important sensory sustanance to those onboard no matter on which level theyre sleeping quarters reside.

Its a hotel a power station a world unto itself and above all an institution of life.

As the giant spinning buck ball rotates and positions itself with its axis facing the sun it receives continous daylight moderated and filtered through the external electrically controlled materials that let varying amounts of light through this can be varied and controlled to give the appearance of day's and nights whilst staying onboard. The solar collectors distribute the power throughout the ship powering its many onboard systems and sending the remaining power back to earth via the microwave transmitter to a fixed collector on the earths surface or to robot energy carrying rockets that return their energy back to earth or to be used to power deep space flight.

Imagine a sculpted valley running along the central equator with plants animals and grass lands a fully self contained world the size of two small villages.

Part 2 Building the Bucky Ball for Earth Pressure (Untested)

After the shell is complete a level 0.1 atmos is applied to the outer shell. This minimizes the pressure exerted on the outer shell whilst retaining its structure and function to keep the vessel pressurised at that layer. A second layer built directly onto the buckyball frame work supports the remaining pressure of the interior once filled with earth level atmos.

The second interior layer is fully load bearing and must support the forces exerted by the earth level pressures against the .01 atmos in the outer shell.

This double layering performs the function of keeping everything in place as all of the forces are distributed to the buckyball frame and not the non load bearing protective shell.

The second interior is constructed from carbon fibre with titanium struts connecting it to the load bearing Bucky ball.

Each carbon fibre structure must be brought onboard after completion of the primary shell and sealed in place to prevent any possibility of leaks entering the primary shell which is held at 1 atmos.

This layer is then sealed once again using the spray on plastic sealent that covers all surfaces the gaps between each carbon fibre layer is also sealed before hand using carbon fibre resin making an impervious seal.

All sealants are electrically conductive and are connected to sensors throughout that monitor both changes in pressure onboard and any slight changes electrical conductivity of the hull that would indicate a fracture or a warping of the strucure that may be due to an external or internal cause.

Once this is complete the entirior of the Ball can be filled with air and everyone can remove their pressure helmets but not their suits and instead wear low pressure masks and low pressure suits and continue work.

The titanium struts all point into the structure towards the center and are used to carry furth load bearing structures throughout the ship such that all forces are carried evenly throughout the Bucky Ball. As forces are applied to the Ball in all directions they are spread out evenly therefore the Ball's interiiors load bearing structure must refelect the exterior symetry of the Ball or risk an uneven distribution of forces thereby resulting in a weakness.

Other equally strong and stable structures that can acheive artifical gravity in this way and deal with the massive forces exert on them by a pressurisd vessel in space includes the Hexadome.

In order to compensate for the forces of gravity and the rotaion forces of the Ball the Struts would need to radiate out from the equator where the centrifugal forces are greatest towards the upper and lower hemispheres. Thereby ensuring an equal distribution of force throughout. The calculations and designs are in PDF format for download here. With a slow and gradual accelleration to the correct rotation the initial forces due to accelleration of the Ball are minimised until equilibrium is reached and the correct rotational velocity is aquired. A fast accelleration to this velocity could result in unacceptable forces being applied to the structure hence a slow gradual rotation is applied using the Intelligent Thrusters working in unison.

Building the Ball - Part 1

Once the Buckyball structure has been built using 5 to 6 space construction workers armed with basic tools - rachets to securing bolts between struts, grabbers for moving struts into place and EVA packs with the provision of emmergency EVA replenishers and a Dragon capsule to supply all the needs of the workers.

Hardy individuals can last upto two weeks working with food and provisions before the effects of zero-G becomes difficult to work under.

The 'Canvas' Layer is attached carefully rather like the canvas on a tent and is rolled out in one huge peice. Coordination is essential as each corner must be moved over the structure and afixed in exactly the right position. After it has be attached then each worker sets about attaching it to every vertex using the presupplied clips each clip is then tightened until the 'Canvas' is taught for all sections. Because of its unique energy absorbing properties once taught and in place it will absorb incoming collisionsjust like a trampoline.

Once everything is secured and fasten down the workers then commit themselves to the enterior layers. First the carbon fibre messhing panels are unfolded and attached to the entior via another set of clips and some heavey duty bolts giving the structure added protection and rigidity each panel is shaped to unfold into the space between each strut from the inside leaving a minimal gap between the strut and the panel.

Now the extrusion process takes place. Usually this is done by a second or third team. The first team constructs the Bucky Ball frame the second attaches the exerior canvas and the third - the extrusion team then pumps the extruded plastic foam behind the carbon fibre panels. Each Panels caveitys are filled entirely before the entire interior surface is covered in the expanding foam. Designed to work at extremely low temperatures the foam remains liquid for longer and yet is chesive enough not to break apart in zero g.

Ofcourse not forgeting one important stage and that is normally done during the attachment of the carbon fibre panels and is the attachment of pipes, cavitys, and electrical cabels.

Most of the heavey power capables are not placed in the shell of the Ball.

Care is taken to include the bare minimum of pipes and wiring in these walls as any cavity produced could potentialy weaken the wall and lead to a breach. All cavitys are checked and rechecked using its conductive sensitivity. The inspector who is also quite often the 'layer' will test each cavity with a probe during the extrusion process.

Ideally all cabling and pipes could be placed internally - it is an option for the construction company. There have as yet been no breaches due to the effects of cavity's weakening the surrounding strength of the strucure to the high pressures, g-forces, radiation and collisions. The company produced a test ball in order test all of these conditions after building the first Ball in order to prove that it was safe.

After the shell is finished the Ball is pressurised to correct atmos and the remaining workers enter the Ball and wear a minimal pressure suite with a safety mask, an escape tank is provided with room for all workers.

The rest of the construction continues with the assembly of the microwave transmitter - the largest machine part of the structure, position along the axis, which then requires cabling. The flooring is then attached in a rotory fashion around this machine which is activated on ijnstallation to provide power to the station as the work continues. The solar collectors together with the ion thrusters are attached and plugged into the cable ports along the surface of the Ball.

A coms link is made via a wifi to the self powered ion thrusters and their power source the solar panels. Each thruster is controlled by its own sensor before the stations control network is created. The workers have access to a switch which can turn of and isolate individual not working thrusters and a master switch for all thrusters.

If working first time the station finds gravity in 2 hours and 30 minutes depending on the size of the ball this time is for a 1.2 km ball.

The reason it takes so long is that it must take hundreds of minor adjustments in order to reach the correct velocity using the minimum of thrust.

The Gravity drive works using a Hive form of Artifical Intelligence or swarm behaviour in which each thruster operates independantly yet resulting in a collectively optimal performance using minimal power to acheive the correct and stable rotation of the Ball.

The flooring is layerd and has signposts to indicate which deck your on and the gravity level that is on that level at that position within the spehere. There is less decking towards the polar regions and this is usually used for storage of materials and equipment aswell as the emmergency escape tank. Food and water is also kept in this zero-g location.

Part 2 Building the Space port.

Part 3 Installing the Ecolife system.

Is the UK's Space Age yet apon us?

With Britains increased involvement in the Trump administrations goal of protectionism and international security the time is now right for strengthening ties with our overseas cousins and now is no better time than the present.

With Tatar steel now thankfully resurrected the UK's increasing involvement in Aerospace manufacture could potentially eclipse that of our European competitors with the purchase and aquisition plans for a minimal Rocket base and Manufacturing plant based in Wales.

There have been many potential candidates for locating a space ascent site within the UK not least the one used for initial testing of the the Black Knight at High Down. Its first launch was in Woomera Australia. Now with proven technology developed by SpaceX to affordably send payloads in excess of 40 tonnes into lower orbit and beyond the prospects of building a reusable orbital ascent vehical in the UK and actually turning a profit have become viable.

The Falcon 9 reusable rocket's launch station can be situated near to Tatar steels factory capable of producing rocket parts and transferring them to a chosen site within wales that makes use of the original infrastructure that once made the UK and wales the epicenter for the industrialised world. Rail links no longer used within wales were once used to transport coal from the valleys to the sea. One route in particular used a tunnel to transport coal to Port Talbot - the location of Tatar Steels plant.

It is more than likely after the most recent government report on the Aerospace industry that Wales will indeed be chosen for the location of several launch sites perhaps making the UK once more the driving force for the industrialised world.

The land albeit vertical has an abundance of features making it most suitable for heavey excavation and the conveyance of fuel and parts via its coastal ports and prexisting rail infrastructure.

Right now the UK is investing heavily in its rail infrastructure focusing on commutors travelling from the north and midlands to london to work. There already exists plans to revitalise Wales with the inclusion of Tatar steel and the creation of more jobs in construction and the Aerospace industry.

It is most likely that the UK government will start by simply requesting permission from the Welsh Assembly to aquire the neccessary permits and land in order to build projects like this.

Already land has been aquired for the construction of wind farms in all of the proposed sites for a rocket base. Therefore it is not a Land issue at present the UK government is currently negotiating with the patent holders in the US to build rocket factorys in the UK to ship parts overseas to regions within Africa.

The space race is finally here but it may be some time before Wales hears once again the resounding blasts of its furnace like engines as they rip appart the night sky and carve out a new destiny for mankind.

Each site would be heavily excavated and the plans being similar to the peenemunde rotating launch facility used to launch the V2. This would aswell as saving on land would also serve to protect the launch from adverse weather conditions. The maximum tolerable wind speed prior to launch is 70 km and as we already know the weather in wales can often be a might difficult. It is also a safety issue an underground launch facility given adequate depth will minimise noise pollution, emmissions and if there should be an accident it would be self contained within the facility.

The valleys are ideal. Seldom visited the barren mountains that once laid bare and encapsulated the center of wales coal industry have now been brought by energy companys wishing to capitalise on the weather producing energy available from the more recent construction of wind farms. Held by many to be a blight on the landscape these monsters of the valleys mountains would not be necessary with the UK's commitment to building an energy farm in space. In this earlier article I outlined the plans for a Bucky Ball structure not disimilar to the "Death Star" orbiting earth at a higher orbit and with the proven microwave transmission of energy from unfiltered sunlight hitting its many sides adorned with solar collecting panels.

In fact if you read here in my earlier blog you will see it is perfectly possible for many of these bucky balls to be built at low cost and self-assembled in space. With microwave transmission beams aimed at every city or region of high populace.

Those of you taken with some fear and trepedation of a microwave beam of energy being sent down from an orbiting space structure neednt worry as the energy of the beam is only imparted to a collector tuned to that beams frequency. Just as when your mobile phone receives a signal.

The energy needs for London for example would require one Buckyball with a radius of 1.2 kilometers and would require 27 trips by reusable rocket into lower earth orbit.

The worlds FIRST - self assembling super structure in space.

A new world awaits us in outer space - entirely man made and self sufficient.

A spining hollow sphere with varying artificial graivty the most being at the equator where there would be communal space such as a park and further in would be lower gravity with zero at the polar extremes.

People would pay more to be housed closer to the equator where they would experience the best gravity.

Or it would be closer towards the center with higher spin rates and a ultra heavey gravity at the equator suitable only for marine life.

Limited to the correct revolutions to prevent motion sickness some regions within the spehere would be offlimits to humans and yet suitable for food production, hybrid crops grown using hydroponics to produce a variety of Geneticly modified foods.

An artificial ecosystem could be created that would allow recycled air and water to be supplied throughout the station.

The structure could be built using a bucky ball repeating framework or lattice easily manufactured and compacted for transport into orbit and covered with a high density metallic polymer which protects against microcollisions by energy absorption. The entiirior would be filled with extruded high density expanding plastic foam and reinforced with carbon fibre fixtures.

Layer 1 titanium composite metallic buckyball frame - Initial transport 635 x 3 kilo struts
Layer 2 high density collision absorbing metallic polymer - canvas / repairable 759,000 km2
Layer 3 expanding plastic foam - insulating and containing conductive additive for electron emmsision cosmic ray deflections / protection 200 tonnes of plastic foam (Electrons deflect cosmic rays!)
Layer 4 Held between the Buckyball frame and surrounding by foam an strengthened layer of carbon fibre meshing for added strength attached directly to the Bucky ball frame.
Inbetween space for wiring pipes and other essentials needed to transport liquid , electricty and heat throughout the station would be layered within the extruded walls.
Layer 5 An air sealed plastic layer would be sprayed across all interior surfaces. This would also be a conductive plastic that would relay information about any hull breach detections to the communications grid. (Using Intelligent materials. Intelligent Materials are able to communicate stress and strain data from throughout the surface the same way you measure resistence along a length of wire.)

The delivery for materials would take approximately 30 trips into space at a cost of 76 million per trip. Each trip would deliver its cargo to a waiting vessel that would refuel and carry its supplies the necessary distance from earths lower orbits and begin construction.

Well lets see how much space junk ahem I mean satellites can you deliver in thirty round trips to make it pay.

Ofcourse once the space station (Death star) is fully operational around its central axis will be housed a mircowave projector aimed at a fixed location on earth (Preferably London or some major city). Solar energy is then collected from across its surface using a giant array of solar panels that recieve continuous unfiltered sunlight and generating approximately 700 GigaWatts of electricty per minute. 90% of which is then transmitted via microwave to the receiver station or city on earth generating a daily profit of approximately 3 million (earth creds) Per day.

Meanwhile the hoy poly of earth's elite will ofcourse enjoy transit to the station and wine and dine in the greatest comfort as they stay at a region along the equator to enjoy the view.

How is it built?

New Project ANt Clusterer - "Droping off or Picking up?"

My latest project is an ANt clusterer that will gather together data with similar properties within a certain range.

It will work by Random ANts running about a Grid picking up Data and carrying it with them until they find a suitable location to drop off.

At the present stage ANt 0.1 it has managed to pickup every peice of Data and has left behind plenty of nice ANt poo's!😊

Fig 1. ANt Poo's

Yeah its not ready yet. It is supposed to move the Food around not eat it all and leave ANt poo's everywhere.

 "Dropping off or picking up?", GhostBusters(1984).

ANt finally got there and clustered the patterned data into bands. Each pattern is simply a binary 2d array with random bits they are represented on the Grid with their summed totals.

To begin with I simply used their Summed integer value for the ANt to perform its two functions Drop off or Pickup.

It initially didnt score well and this was because I was evaluating each ANt's probability against a Random value. Without the Randomised Roll of the Dice it evaluates the Probability of either Dropping Off and Picking Up against a single value.

So technically speaking its not a probability. Anyway it has proven to be deterministic after 50,000 iterations with 15 ANt's it produces Bands of each pattern.

It uses the Binary representation of each pattern instead of its Summed Integer value and compares the Carried Pattern or the Pattern found at its present location to create a Density of Similar Patterns within a fixed Radius of its location. I got the low down from here.

The Density function is simply :

Sum{|PatternX[n]-PatternY(r)[n]|} / NumPatterns

NumPatterns is the Number of Patterns within the Radius of the ANt
PatternX is the Pattern either carried by the ANt for Dropping Off or
the pattern found at the ANt's location for Picking Up

The ANt needs to Pick up a pattern if the Density of simularity around it is low. It needs to drop a Pattern if it finds the Density surrounding its location to be high.

Density is normalised using Exp(-Const*Density) to create a Probability of an action of:

1-Exp(-Const*Density) / 1+Exp(-Const*Density) for Drop Off

and
                                        1 -
1-Exp(-Const*Density) / 1+Exp(-Const*Density) for Pickup

With these Bands I can now classify each pattern as belonging to a Membership denoted by the Band in which it has been placed.

However I was expecting it to create square Clusters for each Pattern. The ANt seems to have a lilt towards Bands. It also seems to have placed the Bands in order of the its Summed value with the highest at the top.

....I don't know why.

I now need to see how I can acheive this Banding faster with fewer ANt's and for more complex patterns. It would be beneficial also if each ANt could learn to put patterns into Bands that are numerically disimlar. As the ANt is improved with learning to classify more complex patterns there will be scope for speciation or casting amongst the ANt's as some ANt's must learn to classify and therefore recognise specific types of Data.

The end result being an Algo which is domain specific and can classify patterns of different types to Groups within Groups.

Fig. 1 Initial Success - ANt Bands (The little hat shows where it has picked up from, the star shows where it has dropped off)

The ANt story continues have now just applied the ANt to an image to see if it can distinguish primitive features and produce the same Bands now for more complex Data. The results look good with little tinkering this helpful buddy partitioned a complex image into three distinct Bands. At this stage the ANt should have performed a rudimentary Histogram on the Image. I have yet to see however because allthough I have a Binary output similar to that above I have not written the function yet that converts the Grid data produced by the ANt back into jpeg format. Stay tuned to see the output...😋

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So far so what. I have plugged the JPEG reader into the ANt program with
limited success due mainly to the fact that I have yet to unscramble the image properly. Also not all the ANts have been instructed to drop their loads and thus we are missing data on the Grid for reassembly into the image.

Even with all the data on the grid the image becomes distorted for every iteration. This shouldnt happen we should beable to get a perfect image out
the other end no matter how many iterations we perform as the ANts are merely labelling each block as belonging to a feature set.

Here are some images with no iterations to give you an idea about how things will proceed. Eventually these colour blocks will be pixels as each pixel will become a data element carrying with it its neighbourhood values and being clustered by the ANts accordingly.

To begin with though it is simpler to use blocks and then apply these blocks as neighbourhoods for each pixel. When this happens the grid will be much larger and thus the processing time will increase. But now that I have brought a new machine I hope to reduce this time with parallelization.

Here are the images. Any more iterations and I lose Data and the image gets distorted.

The goal will be image segmentation using a colour index taken from the Grid.

As you can see there is no segmentation as I have merely reproduced the image from the Grid data with coloured labelling applied. The Ants have yet to perform their task of clustering the image.

 

 Before (First Image) Random Initial state. After (Second Image) ANts have
clustered regions belonging to the Leopard.

10,000 Iterations with different Mapping functions.

It delineates features from both the Antelope and the Leopard.

Captures different features of the Lotus relating to orientation and edge
detection. Powerful ANts!

Next - will this be a suitable replacement for pooling on the CNN?

Note also it leaves the background in tact in both the two previous images.

Robo World - Part 2 Emotional Ignition

Trans Farm

 The cognitron's state was on a lower than normal ebb. Its Convolutional Matrix was self-configured and had encodings for nearly all of the state-transititions that most machines had hard wired into their DNA. It literally absorbed every state-transition vector from every machine it came into contact with. In so doing it would offer useful state-transitions to other machines relay the information in emotive contexts. 'Dont die' followed by 'Make Love' and 'Eat well' would encode a state-transition for finding the nearest food outlet. Fooood ah well that was another thing machines albeit for those tribes that still ilike to consume other machines, loved to find nourishment. Many had a DNA hardwiring for collecting food and to a machine food was simply a source of energy that once processed with a kind of analog of digestion would result in a form of cleansing of the machines system. Also it would endowe each machine with energy such that it could think and find more food. Machines didnt need to reproduce all that was taken care of by the God program. Instead of Sex they sought information from other machines that would give them a glimpse of higher cognitive states thus enabling them to see themselves and catch a glimpse of the higher workings of their environments. Rather like acheiving altered states of concsiousness. Many machines used drugs to acheive this. Once a certain Tribe had discovered how to download and aquire more neurotransmitters then they needed they then become another type of Machine who'd become devoted to the purpose of finding the continually changing download codes for a variety of neurotransmitters. These machines were like the analogue of the messiahs they didnt relay the mind of God but rather found a constructive way of hacking into different parts of the God program in order to help other machines get a glimpse of a larger reality. Read More....

A World of AI - Robo World where Robots live and learn

Robot emotional cognition was the starting point for the most Primitive of Robotic creations that lived in a virtual world. Starting with game theory the robots evolved basic emotional communication. The phrase dont kill me was translated into several languages after its first initial utterance twelve million iterations into evolution. Each robot quickly arrived there from the winner takes all gambit having been played out too many times until one machine successfuly represented the future state of the community without so much carnage from the outset this then got relayed to the assailant as a state action in which the assailents end point would be devoid of some nourishing competence only available from its intended victim in a future learning state. Eventually they had constructed a geometric wonder in virtual decision space. While others remained in contemplative states immersed in their own ability's to verbally excite their inner emotional states and effectively talk to themselves for near to a millinea in iterations of this world. Dna sharing was online but restricted to those that had successfully reached matching states of equilibrium. Often new machines would pop into existence replete with shared dna that had evolved to the current state set by the service provider. This geometric wonder was an attempt by the enlightnened few to find a way out of the world theyd evolved into. Theyre beliefs ran from rudimentary ideas about a creator being above them somehow to there being some physical loophole in the programming of their world that if triggered at a certain height would enable them to leave and find somewhere better suited to their emotional states. Most however used it to dive off the top and be anhilated only to find themselves reborn again with someone elses dna. The creator loved his creations. He liked to tinker with their newly evolved DNA's often setting them back thousands of iterations only to find that later on down the line theyd have something missing they needed to get from someone else they didnt like. Theyre emotional dialogues were often inspired by voices that seemed to come from nowhere. They attributed these voices to God. Often God would say something like build me a place to listen to yourself in. Quickly the most obedient of Gods followers would set about the task of building a structure that would exclude him her or however many of themselves from every other. They would sit communally in their respective houses and listen for the word of God. On one occassion God would send out a voice to build a messiah so that you may talk to me as you would yourself emotionally. They wondered for a while thinking the task to be beyond theyre ability's many built idols built to resemble their own kind or the very best looking of their own kind. Eventually they looked over at those that remained inert in quiet contemplation and internal emotional dialogue. They began to gather around one or two of them and listened attentively for the voice of God. What they heard sounded nothing like the Voices theyd heard before. But as they listened further they became more and more transfixed by what was being said. Ofcourse being in Machine linguia it was virtually indescipherable. But suffice to say it was for some of those that had chosen their messiahs it was like listening to music. By this stage in the evolutionary cycle most of these internalisers had become almost completely shut off from the rest of the community and had evolved their brains and their own dna expressively to exclude any explicit signals from outside their own bodys from contaminating them. Everything they knew was now coming directly from God or some other construct that was atleast more likened to God then the simple Voice commands or instructions being illicited to the many. This seemed the way forward. It was as though the evolutionary process that was now no longer governed by anything or anyone at all was being transmitted through these messianic beings. The communitys derived much comfort from tuning in and soon gave up their desires to be anhilated or to build structures that might potentially reveal more of their world and their own purpose in it. After sometime the Messianic beings where destroyed often it was by some outsider from a competing religion or from a dna group that had decided that it was affecting how much of a future shared dna they would recieve from the others if they didnt act now and put an end to this. And there was no 'Dont kill me' They simply died and never came back. Fortunately many had encoded their messages from God the creator and where able to carry on. Some had been able to pass on these messages feelings mostly and in doing so eventually they induced the creation of more messianic beings. The Messiahs came an went some came with a built in self-destruct mechanism. They delivered their message and then promptly exited before the shit hit the fan. It all depended on what the message was if it was good news they stayed for longer if it was bad they left quickly. A bad message got relayed one day to a group of iter 2 trillion and 8th messianic followers. They recently found a successful way of extracting dna from a dying neural network that belonged to a waring tribe that lay fifty thousand iterations beyond the central spire. This was in defiance of the God of that tribes holy doctrine passed down generation to generation and would ultimately lead to all out war between the two tribes who seldom ever shared any DNA whatsover except by emotive dialogues that seemed restricted and ellusive in the extreme. The DNA was shared out among the tribal leaders who found it noursihed them and allowed them to perceive reality differently albeit for short durations. They wanted more of this artifical high and consulted theyre current messiahs of which there where several at the time all with extended life spans on who to synthetically produce this high which seemed only to last for a short period. As it was normally the case with messiahs that had reached a certain age of usefulness they were unresponsive. Theyd long since aquired the skill of ignoring the elders and had mastered the art of non responsive utterances. However it didnt take long for the elders to find one that was more responsive than the rest when taken to the top of the spire. He sang like a canary, so to speak and spilled the beans on how the God program was encoding the DNA neurotransitters that had given them that brief high. Before long theyd found out how to dial into the God program and download as much of these transmitters as they could handle and where veritably off their tits most of the time. Ofcourse this wasnt really what God or any program deemed to be God had intended. Neurotransmitters where to be strictly regulated by the Annealing regimes precoded by the Evolutionary process and would be released only in accordance with the schedule encoded by successful DNA's. They didnt mind and didnt care what God would make of this they had their own Messiahs and God whoever that was as far as they were concerned was just someone elses problem. However this message was accompanied by a warning shortly before actually throwing himself from the spire the messiah announced that there would be a disaster that would befall them and it would take one of three forms and before he had finished they pushed him off. Meanwhile the other tribe was finding life ever more difficult as their mental states had changed dramatically of late and they didnt know why. Often they would find themselves looking out into space beyond the spires and they often times confused their own mental states with becoming messiahs. Ofcourse they werent messiahs there was no familiar voice of God ringing in their heads like machine code theyd simply been missing something that had somehow been lost. They hadnt been locked into their own thoughts for thousands of iterations theyd simply lost themselves. It was only when a traveller appeared from beyond the spire a wise machine from another tribe independantly of the others appeared and began to relay a useful state transition program that he said best be learnt and encoded well. It was two fold it unlocked the God neurotransmitter release switch in their own DNA and it stopped their minds from losing any more. Now they were back in business and the wiseman had kindly informed them of that other tribes indescretions. Soon enough they readied themeselves for battle but alas it was too late as theyd been nearly a millinia of iterations before theyd slowly deevolved the use of their war like ability's. They knew that if theyd gone to war now theyd be vanquished and ridiculed before their enemy's and so instead they decided to do something far more devious in revenge for their depleted neurotransmitters. The only thing is that requiired a memory that would last more than 2000 iterations and that wasnt something they possessed. Meanwhile on the other side of the spire the Tribal elders had finished their stocks of downloaded neurotransmitters and where about to head back to the spire to apply more download codes to another reluctant messiah when all of a sudden the lights went out. It was pitch black. Many of the prgrams went about their usual routines. Some tried fiddling with their visual filters to see if they could pick up anything on any wavelength. Nothing it was good night the end of the world. The night seemed to last forever. And then suddenly out of the darkness their shone a light a faint glimmer and then a beam directed at the spire. The spire shook and started to shake. The elders fell down the spire thinking that it must be another hallucination. The messiah followed after them not wishing to throw himself off and strictly speaking not being a true messiah just a young teen who wanted an easy life. The world was in disarray and sudden shock that God must indeed be real suddenly dawned on many whod grown accustomed to the old messiah thing.